OPERATE
Definition:
- [verb] direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.; "She is running a relief operation in the Sudan"
Synonyms: run
- [verb] perform as expected when applied; "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well?"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore"
Synonyms: function, work, go, run
- [verb] handle and cause to function; "do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol"; "control the lever"
Synonyms: control
- [verb] perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense
Synonyms: manoeuver, maneuver, manoeuvre
- [verb] happen; "What is going on in the minds of the people?"
- [verb] keep engaged; "engaged the gears"
Synonyms: engage, mesh, lock
- [verb] perform surgery on; "The doctors operated ont he patient but failed to save his life"
Synonyms: on
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Related Words:
- financier
- work
- block
- warm up
- double
- roll
- run
- cut
- service, serve
- synchronize, synchronise
- dial
- turn
- submarine
- treadle
- relay
- gate
- pedal
- drive
- fly, aviate, pilot
- jockey
- throw, flip, switch
- ride
- sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix
- face-lift, lift
- trephine
- venesect
